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  • New Laptop!!My department got me a new laptop this week. It's a Dell D530. I nice laptop it is too 2.0 Ghz Dual Core 2 GB Memory 110 GB HD (could be bigger…

    ... too, but there are some bits that Microsoft has royally fucked ... this to load the most used apps into memory so they ...
    Vampyre Vampyre February 2008 Chit chat
  • What are the best shoot-em-ups for the Spectrum?I mean, besides Zynaps. That's pretty much a given.

    ... was great on the speccy, used to play it for hours ... only on the Atari 8-bits if memory serves, it predates ...
    TMR TMR February 2008 Games
  • Into the screen driving simulator effectI was wondering how the racing games of yore did the into the screen scrolling effect. I'm sure you could do something crude drawing bars on the scre…

    ... this involved making more distant bits of road appear narrower. ie ... overview of the pseduo-3D used by [URL=http://en.wikipedia ...
    JamesW JamesW February 2008 Development
  • 5 down 3 to Go!!I have just taken delivery of a further two microdrives to add to my collection. I now have 5 Microdrives. Who else has microdrives??Anyone else …

    ... and years, without ever being used because the two IF1s I ... are just piles of broken bits. I eBayed most of the ... add-ons because I never used them. I do still have ...
    zeem zeem February 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • What is the deep philosophical meaning behind your avatar?>waits for mile to post< I can't figure mine out, I'm not stupid enough.

    ... little round white bits, after it's been used a couple of ...
    dm_boozefreek dm_boozefreek February 2008 Chit chat
  • Eprom blowerdoes anyone know a site with plans for an eprom programmer project that'll blow 27C256s. I attempted to build one called Kisseprom, but the software …

    ... />
    EPROMS do drop bits, which is why an overprogram ... them. I may have used a ZXspectrum psu (9V ... them and maybe i used an earlier version of ... that was what VCC was used during verification), but not ... to what VCC voltages are used and when, which might ...
    csmith csmith February 2008 Hardware
  • speccy graphics in pc games[url]http://cactusquid.proboards99.com/index.cgi?board=games&action=display&thread=22[/url] excellent!!! are there any original pc games featuring …

    ... used entirely Speccy-level graphics (while still updating, tweaking, adding new bits ... that he felt he'd used the power of the Speccy ...
    Danforth Danforth March 2008 Games
  • problem using FRAMES to generate 'random' numbersI realise the pros use bytes from ROM to get their random numbers, presumably because they want to use FRAMES to synchronise the printing and avoid s…

    ... 's the 16-bit one used in z88dk:
    [url]http ... a small number of random bits.
    [url]http://en.wikipedia ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Development
  • BBC microI was often made aware by people at the time that the beeb was the "best computer in the world." Even my next-door neighbour ( who was a bit of a co…

    ... system layer of the 8 bits. It made programming it very ... accessing memory that was also used for video.

    I ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Chit chat
  • Fond memories of porn...In secondary school there was this guy whose dad owned a newsagents and he used to bring in copies of the Playboy Lingerie Special and other saucy ma…

    ... where the naughty bits never were visible. My uncle used to work ... lot of international press - I used to get my Crash there ...
    XTM of TMG XTM of TMG March 2008 Chit chat
  • New oneliners for 2008[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]Here's my attempt at a first-person-perspective 3d game in one line of BASIC. It's called 'wormhole', and you've got to get t…

    ... that I used the generator from my oneliner which uses bits instead ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Development
  • Packing numbers in as least memory as possibleI am writing some code for drawing vector lines etc. on the screen. These need to be stored in memory and I want to pack them in a smaller area as po…

    ... Y you could use 4-bits to hold each, and a ... table which matched those 4-bits to the real value you ... will point to the most used lengths.
    The 16th ... value is used to read the real value ... save more on the often used values. You have to calculate ...
    Dr BEEP Dr BEEP March 2008 Development
  • Collision Detection in SP1Hi, Does anyone have a well-documented example of using collision detection in spritelib. I've search WoS and Z88DK forums but no joy. Something wi…

    ... graphical definition else 1-byte, bits 2:0 = current vertical rotation ... )

    [B]vrot[/B] (bits 2:0 only, 0 through ... calculations, xthresh and ythresh are used to further refine how wide ... is a tolerance. The 2 used above means the sprites must ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Development
  • Fastest loaderWhat was the fastest speed loader developed and could you name a game using it?

    ... 01011, giving the following 10 bits to encode: 1011001011. This would ... 10Mbps ethernet. NRZI 4B5B is used for 100Mbit (100baseTX) ethernet - although ... you're still sending 10 bits on the wire for every ... 8 bits, and not nearly the robustness ...
    Winston Winston March 2008 Games
  • Fastest loaderWhat was the fastest speed loader developed and could you name a game using it?

    ... 01011, giving the following 10 bits to encode: 1011001011. This would ... 10Mbps ethernet. NRZI 4B5B is used for 100Mbit (100baseTX) ethernet - although ... you're still sending 10 bits on the wire for every ... 8 bits, and not nearly the robustness ...
    SnakeOilSteve SnakeOilSteve March 2008 Games
  • Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…

    And here is a method that is much, much better.

    [code]
    #include

    int galLFSR(int state)
    {
    static int lfsr;

    if (state)
    lfsr = state;
    else
    lfsr = (lfsr ^ (-( ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…

    ... ]
    How wide would the bits need to be to do ... to be at least 15 bits long.
    [/quote]

    used to determine all the maximal ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Spectrum run and guns gamesMy favourite Spectrum game is probably Midnight Resistance, but i completed it yesterday, and so wanted to know if there are any other stand out game…

    ... its still telling me a bits wrong !

    Its not ... though.

    The photofit used to piss me off and ...
    Vertigo Vertigo March 2008 Games
  • Great new virtual keyboard!This won't be of use for emulators that run on machines that have real keyboards, of course, but for emulators that run on the XBox, PS2/3, PSP, Nint…

    ... then allow to be freely used and distributed, so I can ... general) the platform-specific port bits aren't written with porting ... />
    I mean, if they used your code for commercial programs ...
    Philip Kendall Philip Kendall March 2008 Emulators
  • SAM Games that never wereIn another thread on Multiloads there's been a bit of chat about US Gold's infamous statement about porting Strider to the SAM (which tbh if they had…

    ... colour palette could still be used - is that the case or ... 3 is 4 colour, 2 bits per pixel, compared to MODE ... which is 16 colour, 4 bits per pixel. Both 24576 bytes ...
    Quazar Quazar March 2008 Games
  • ipodsjust bought my very first ipod :) an 8gb ipod nano (cos i was fed up of the cheaper shit that broke within the first few months :( ) anyway i didnt …

    ... .
    it installed about 6 bits of software????
    itunes, quicktime ... /> For a few weeks I used an alternative peice of software ...
    Scottie_uk Scottie_uk March 2008 Chit chat
  • Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…

    ... ]

    The code I used is at the top of ... 't "blank" any other "set" bits at 4000h)
    [code]
    BloodBaz BloodBaz March 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • Claissic older PC gamesI'm looking for some decent PC games from 1995-2002 to play. Nothing too huge like any recent games, i've got Duke Nukem, Quake II and Red Alert but…

    ... originality [I]Flashback[/I] had. Used to love the part in ... sequel didn't have any bits like those in it!!
    GreenCard GreenCard March 2008 Chit chat
  • That game so difficult...What Speccy game(s) have you never been able to complete (but always wanted to)? Off the top of my head: [I]Rockstar Ate My Hamster[/I] (could only…

    ... ]... Someone mentioned this recently, I used to love playing it, but ... managed to complete it. The bits where you had to kill ...
    psj3809 psj3809 March 2008 Games
  • Japanese-only or lesser-known games you playedI've noticed by their comments there are a few people on WOS (hi Vertigo, dm_boozefreek etc.) who have played titles which were either never released…

    ... japcrap as an old mate used to say.

    My ... , as well as Master System bits and pieces and all of ...
    Vertigo Vertigo April 2008 Chit chat
  • Disappearing/appearing effectI remember doing a small routine in BASIC which could be used to cover the attributes section randomly, until all 704 characters were filled with the…

    ... =BloodBaz;258564]The code I used is at the top of ... 't "blank" any other "set" bits at 4000h)
    [code]
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous April 2008 Sinclair Basic
  • i am currently listening to........as i couldnt seem to find the old one, i didnt look that hard :P ive started a new one right after somebody asked me for some slayer ive rediscovere…

    ... Galliano and Mother Earth? I used to love all that. The ... i still have a few bits of acid jazz on cd ...
    mel the bell mel the bell April 2008 Chit chat
  • Post your top 5's(your top 5 can be anything... it just has to be a top 5.) Top 5 Led Zeppelin Songs: 1. song remains the same 2. what is and what should never be 3…

    ... /> Erebus
    Shadows

    used to read them all the ... only really read the dirty bits in em these days :P
    mel the bell mel the bell April 2008 Chit chat
  • A BASIC compiler projectHi, I started my own BASIC compiler for the ZX Spectrum (and Z80 machines) 3 months ago. It's still in ALPHA stage (when it is mature, I will write …

    ... /> - Strings are implemented as 16 bits (unsigned pointers). So proceed as ... frame register). The calling convention used is always CALLEE (The ... the parameters). IX is used to get the parameters and ... states) due to the Jump used. Callee convention would be ...
    boriel boriel April 2008 Development
  • 2 Spectrums (synched) playing AY tunes?After listening to a few Turbo Sound FM MP3s, I wondered... For those of us who can't build this card, couldn't we synch 2 128Ks and play these tunes…

    ... />
    [quote]I thought programs used to create tunes would output ... piano arrangement - all the messy bits that make Spectrum tracking complicated ... ones with the metal flangey bits don't fit underneath the ...
    gasman gasman April 2008 Sinclair Miscellaneous
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